Experimentation seems lost in the hobby. This is my attempt to spread some new ideas and help enable those who want to explore something new..

Thursday, August 28, 2008

New York City Soldering Championship

They are putting together the TV-B-Gone. I think it would have been nice to watch them test the projects too. I think a soldering contest is a rather neat idea, and I'd love to see one at the next hamfest or ham club meeting I attend :-)

IEEE Spectrum (a magazine edited by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.) stopped by Ignite NYC, where Bre Pettis and the NYC Resistor hacker collective hosted a contest to see who had the fastest soldering iron in the city. The contestants all raced to build a TV-B-Gone kit and the first to turn off the TV won.